About the Project

We now provide links to public domain eBooks scanned in the Internet Archive, the BnF’s Gallica and Google Books. Currently about 85 titles are available. To view the entire list select The Online Bibliography tab above, then go to Simple Search and select “eBook” from the Publication Type drop down menu. We regret that many multi-volume editions are not yet complete in these online repositories. We will monitor them and update our links as additional volumes become available.

Please let us know if you are aware of reference works we have over looked.  We are constantly updating the database. We now cite more than 630 websites including 179 free eJournals. The total database now includes more than 6,000 additional print resources.

We have address the problem of websites becoming inactive by the addition of new Publication Type categories for Website (Defunct) and Website (Archived).

Since the Music & Dance Reference Project: Online Bibliography Database, in many respects, supersedes the work of Vincent H. Duckles’ Music Reference and Research Materials: An Annotated Bibliography, it is useful to compare the varying strengths of each.
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Comparison Between Duckles 5 and the Online Bibliography DatabaseRead More »

Welcome to the Music Bibliography & Reference Project. This site is intended to assist music librarians and music bibliographers to work together to create an extensive bibliography of music bibliographies and music reference sources.